300 BCE - 250 BCET-AΛ-ΩN | ΦAIΣΤIΩN
Overstriking coin
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Overstruck variety
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| Museum collectionMuseum collection:
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Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Fonds général 477
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Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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T-AΛ-ΩN (Greek) alos, nude, standing facing with spread wings, raising his right hand to hurl a stone and holding another in his lowered left
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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ΦAIΣΤIΩN (Greek) Bull butting to right
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:
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Phaestus
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Ancient regionAncient region.
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Crete
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Modern countryModern country: Crete
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AuthorityIdentifies the issuing power. The authority can be "pretended" when the name or the portrait of X is on the coin but he/she was not the issuing power. It can also be "uncertain" when there is no mention of X on the coin but he/she was the issuing power according to the historical sources:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 300 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 250 BCE
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Hellenistic 323-30 BC  periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.: Silver
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WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 11.5111.51 g <br />11,510 mg <br />
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DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: stater
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StandardStandard.: Aeginetic
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References
Description
| ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:
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Turtle
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ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:
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Incuse square
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Mint and issuing power
| MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ᵖ:
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Aegina
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Ancient regionAncient region. ᵖ
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Attica
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Modern countryModern country: Greece
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AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ᵖ:
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Chronology
| FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 400 BCE toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 330 BCE
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Classical 480-323 BC periodTime period of the numismatic object.
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Physical description
| DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius. ᵖ:
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stater
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StandardStandard. ᵖ:
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Aeginetic
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References
References
- ^ Svoronos, Ioannes N. (1890), Numismatique de Crète ancienne, accompagnée de l'histoire, la géographie et la mythologie de l'île. Première partie, description des monnaies, 2 vol., Macon, Impr. Protat frères.
- ^ Le Rider, Georges (1966), Monnaies crétoises du Ve au Ier siècle av. J.-C., Paris, Geuthner, 345 p. and 42 pl.
